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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel
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Discover the extraordinary (The Washington Post) debut novel that announces the arrival of a literary supernova (The New York Times Book Review),a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate (Chigozie Obioma).WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review Time The Washington Post NPR The Guardian Library JournalIn a sprawling Indian city, a boy ventures into its most dangerous corners to find his missing classmate. . . .Through market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of cardamom and sizzling oil, below a smoggy sky that doesnt let through a single blade of sunlight, and all the way at the end of the Purple metro line lies a jumble of tinroofed homes where nineyearold Jai lives with his family. From his doorway, he can spot the glittering lights of the citys fancy highrises, and though his mother works as a maid in one, to him they seem a thousand miles away. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into this neighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the eyes of a child as he has his first perilous collisions with an unjust and complicated wider world.Jai drools outside sweet shops, watches too many reality police shows, and considers himself to be smarter than his friends Pari (though she gets the best grades) and Faiz (though Faiz has an actual job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crimesolving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit.But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai, Pari, and Faiz have to confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force, and rumors of soulsnatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again.Drawing on real incidents and a spate of disappearances in metropolitan India, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line is extraordinarily moving, flawlessly imagined, and a triumph of suspense. It captures the fierce warmth, resilience, and bravery that can emerge in times of trouble and carries the reader headlong into a community that, once encountered, is impossible to forget.
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